BigCommerce Partner Summit – October 16, 2018

Over 160 partners from across the world visited Austin, Texas, for the BigCommerce Partner Summit. This will be our second year in a row attending. We go because we find this fast growing platform and the partner focused group at BigCommerce are outstanding to work with – for both our clients and internal team!

DCKAP customizes and integrates BigCommerce. We’re especially focused on making integration faster and simpler, also allowing for custom product configuration (on page), to help conversion rates – we call this solution Productimize. From this perspective, we wanted to share our notes on the event.

Monday, October 15, kicked off with a welcome reception at Lambert’s, in Downtown Austin (great food and drinks – Texas BBQ!). Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce, networked with the partner community and stayed through the reception.

We met with a bunch of BigCommerce folks during the evening. Evan Smith, our Partner Manager, always adds a ton of value when we meet up, and the summit was no exception. Time and again, the BigCommerce team’s focus on being accessible, communicative, and easy to work shines through and makes a big difference.

Watching the teamwork, it is clear they genuinely embrace and support their partners. It was interesting to see partners who work on different platforms (Magento, Shopify) also attend the BigCommerce Partner Summit (DCKAP works on all the three platforms). This year, BigCommerce also gave away awards to the best-performing partners at the welcome reception.

Productimize

In one of the sessions, the work that was done by Metacake (our valued partner, as well) using Productimize (product customization platform) for Old Spice (P&G brand) was showcased. We appreciate being featured and having our product exposed to more people.

Product Roadmap and Updates:

This session was lead by Troy Cox, VP Product Management, and Elena Leonova, Director of Product Management. They laid out a clear, logical roadmap. Continuing to build upon the open and secure platform, Cross-Channel Commerce, Merchandising and Promotions were the major themes.

B2B features and functionalities were talked about and the product team also encouraged the partner community to work on B2B features & products that solve customers B2B problems (as it is very specific), and common use cases.

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Karthik Chidambaram is the Founder & CEO of DCKAP. He bootstrapped the company in 2005 from his small apartment in Chicago, Illinois. DCKAP was once his dream, became his passion, and is now an everyday reality. The company started off with a set of desks, a couple of computers, and two enthusiastic people that have gone on to expand into global team with corporate headquarters in Fremont, California and operations in Europe and India.